To love and be loved

Hello lovelies, hope your weekend’s off to a beautiful start. Seattle has been extra beautiful the last two days, giving us nice warm sunshine to refresh ourselves and we are totally loving it.

Going through my pictures folder I realized I totally forgot to share these pictures from our mid February celebration (Can we give a different name to Valentines day?). I know there are so many opinions about this day. But I think, what’s so bad about a day to celebrate the ones you love? True, we should express our love every day instead. But sometimes in the ho-hum of life, we tend to forget and it is a good reminder, this silly little, what has become so commercial, Valentines Day.

Maybe next year, we can come up with our little secret day to celebrate love? Just so it doesn’t feel so forced and commercial? Lol. That might be fun.

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Lunchtimes.

This baby girl is not a good eater. Till she was a year old, she loved food times. She used to get so excited as soon as she saw me getting it for her. But since then things have changed, and now I have such a hard time trying to get her to eat something proper.

I used to skip lunch mostly when I was at home, but now I try to make sure that I make something quick for our lunch (or some leftovers from the night before) and that we both sit down at the table and eat a little meal. The things that change when we become a mom! :) I’m trying to offer her good options to eat and at least get her used to the concept of sitting down for meals.

Sometimes I make us a fruit yogurt smoothie and then we drink them in our recycled glass bottles with colorful straws (Good use for those Starbucks Frappuccino bottles I keep saving? I think so). Makes for a happy little lunchtime treat.

Have any ideas for baby lunchtimes? I would love to hear what your kids eat for lunch when they’re home.

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Hello Monday. Hello sunshine and a DIY share.

Hello all you sweet people. It has been a beautiful sunshine filled Monday for us in Seattle. Cant tell you how much we needed it.

Anya and I made a trip to the library for story time and then ran some errands. And since then we’ve just been basking in the sun that is filling up our little house.



Over the weekend, thanks to the husband, the shelves are finally up in Anya’s room and I cant wait to share her room FINALLY (I know!!).

I wanted to share this quick project I had done many months ago, but only now found a place for it. The hand drawn cushion cover! It was inspired by a few projects I saw on Pinterest (of course!) including this and this.

All you need is a black fabric marker, a plain cushion cover (I had bought this from Target 2 years ago and it was sitting in the closet since then), and a little design in your head. Slide a cardboard or something under the fabric layer and just draw on. No need for it to be perfect. If you look closely you'll find uneven lines at many points, but I like to think these add to the charm;)





Fabric markers are so much fun to use. A couple years ago, my sister Nadiya came up with a fun idea for us. When she came to see us in early 2011, she brought along plain white t-shirts for the three of us, along with fabric paints, markers etc. We spent a fun evening together, sitting on our dining table, planning what to do with our shirts, chatting, making fun of each other’s shirts and finally making our shirts. It was the most fun the three of us have had in a many years. I tell you my sisters are super cool :)




Excuse the quality of these pictures, we didn’t know I’d be sharing them on the blog someday. lol

Now excuse me will you, I have to go get some dinner ready for tonight!

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